THE FALL RIVER TRAGEDY.; A History of the Borden Murders. A plain statement of the material facts pertaining to the most famous crime of the century, including the story of the arrest and preliminary trial of Miss Lizzie A. Borden and a full report of the Superior Court trial, with a hitherto unpublished account of the renowned Trickey-McHenry affair compiled from official sources and profusely illustrated with original engravings.
Fall River (MA): Buffinton, 1893. First edn. 8vo, pp. [ii], 312. Illustrated, Pulpy paper browned as usual with the hinges front tender, title page browned and starting, name on end paper, genersally a very good copy. Howes P-486; McDade 117:"This is the basic book on the case and now hard to find." Item #60241
McDade:"The Borden case still ranks as one of the great American murder cases ... On August 14, 1892, Andrew J. Borden and his wife, Abby, were hacked to death in their home in Fall River, MA. Lizzie ... was tried and acquitted for the murder of her father and stepmother. It is difficult today to read the case and and conclude that Lizzie was innocent."
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